The United States owes it to the people of Central America to work with them to make the area safer and more prosperous, Sen. Thomas Carper believes. Many Americans may deny it, but the United States is partially responsible for the crime, corruption and instability plaguing much of Latin America, Delaware’s senior senator said hours after returning from a trip to El Paso, Texas, to see border facilities. “We are complicit in their misery,” he told reporters. “Our addiction to drugs in this country — the drugs are trafficked up from Colombia through Central America through Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, corrupting officials, corrupting the economy, corrupting all kinds. And if we didn’t have an addiction to these drugs, frankly, little of that would happen. We have this addiction. Drugs are trafficked. And it has just created hell in these three countries.”
- So if I understand, we are to blame for their problems because we have American citizens that are addicted to drugs. We are going to make the dealers’ backyard nicer, while allowing them to commit illegal acts that are killing Americans? — Stacy Johnson
- They owe it to their own people to clean up their crooked countries and drug lords and be more like a stand-up country. — Howard Gaines III
- What countries are supporting us? We have homeless, disabled and low-income families that we need to take care of here first. — Jon Walczak
- Amazing. People complain because of illegal immigrants that are coming here either to fill a void in our own workplaces or because they are escaping horrific conditions in their native countries. And now the same ones are complaining about the U.S. trying to help these people, so they stay in their countries. — Dennis Norwood
- I agree with him, in a larger sense. We spend obscene amounts of money on the other side of the planet for God-knows-what reason, and maybe we should be looking to help people in our own hemisphere instead. — John Daliani
- Why don’t you concentrate on Delaware people, our veterans? — Darlene Denton
